âIn the Nazi death camp of Sobibor in Eastern Poland, knitting saved several Jewish women from deathâ
With the Nazi forces rounding up Jews and anyone else they deemed âunworthyâ, they had en...

Textile historian and weaver Ruth Gilbert is hosting an Early Modern Stocking Study Day on Saturday 24th March 2018, from 10am to 4pm, at the Loft Space, Britannia Mills, Huddersfield www.facebook.com/theloftspaceBritanniaMills/. Ruth is covering the evidence for early knitted stockings and its interpretation as well as knitting techniques, tools and yarn. A must for anyone interested in both the history as well as the practical reproduction of Early Modern knitted stockings.

The sixth interdisciplinary and international In the Loop conference will be held at Winchester School of Art (WSA), University of Southampton 19-20 July 2018. This year marks the tenth anniversary of In the Loop and to celebrate this WSA will be hosting In the Loop at 10, a special conference which will celebrate the outstanding contribution that the conference, its organisers, and its participants have made to knitting scholarship, while also promoting new research on all aspects of knitting.

One of the major successes of Loop has been the development of a unique archive of knitting-related material at the University of Southampton, housed both in the Knitting Reference Library at WSA, and in the University’s Special Collections. To help mark the significance of this legacy, we will particularly welcome papers this year on the theme of ‘Collections’. We will interpret this theme broadly to include archives, libraries, private collections, company papers, personal documents, and knitwear design collections.

In addition, we are interested in receiving papers on any aspect of knitting, past, present, and future, and we look forward to hosting a conference that will bring together artists, designers, practitioners, knitters, academics, theorists, curators, archivists, and librarians.

Abstracts should be no longer than 500 words and include full contact details and affiliation where appropriate. Send to J.A.Turney@soton.ac.uk